Ramanuja-mata-saara-sangrah part 6

This part discusses a very important concept:

Anupravesha

After Panchikaranam, the creation of sthoola jagat have been done. Till now, the creation is adwaraka. Bhagwan creates the universe directly. Henceforth, the creation is Sadwaraka. Bhagwan creates being Antaryami of Brahma and other jeevatmaas.

An important concept here is ‘Anupravesha’ (following entering). Before creation, jeevatmas had no names and forms and their gyaana was almost zero. They were lying like achit objects. The purpose of creation is to create names and forms and thus provide limbs to jeevatmas to enable them to make efforts for achieving moksham.

For creating names and forms, the anupravesha of Bhagwan is ‘jeeva-dwara’ I.e. making jeevatmas as the medium. He enters a jeevatma and from being an antaryami there, he evolves various forms and give them a name. Whatever exists to have name and form, should be understood to have been developed through ‘jeeva-dwara-anupravesha’ of Bhagwan.

“अनेन जीवेनात्मना
अनुप्रविश्य नामरूपे व्याकरवाणि” । – छान्दोग्योपनिषत् ६-३-२

तत् सृष्ट्वा तदेवानुप्राविशत्‌। तदनुप्रविश्य। सच्च त्यच्चाभवत्। निरुक्तं चानिरुक्तं च। निलयनं चानिलयनं च।विज्ञानं चाविज्ञानं च। सत्यं चानृतं च सत्यमभवत्‌।यदिदं किं च। तत्सत्यमित्याचक्षते।तदप्येष श्लोको भवति॥
-Taittriya Upanishad

Thus, by creating these names and forms, he himself became known by those names and forms. As he is their antaryaami, these all are his shareera. The rivers, the mountains etc are seen as Bhagwan (since they are shareeratayaa (like body) inseparable from Bhagwan (aprithak siddha Visheshana). Even the names and forms a jeevatma gets can be understood as names and forms of Bhagwan, as bhagwan is the antaryami of that jeevatma.

NOTE:

After studying ‘anupravesha’; some may develop the understanding that Bhagwan enters the jeevatma as antaryami after creation. That’s not a correct understanding. The inseparable or aprithak siddh relation means that Bhagwan is always the antaryaami of jeevatmas, without any gap. If for any moment, Bhagwan isn’t the antaryami of jeevatma, the existence of jeevatma itself will get destroyed.